Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-12-07
WORDS OF PROMISE.
A Well Informed Man Writes a
Letter tor the Yellowstone
Journal. .
The Southern Railroads are
Coming. A Railroad Inun-
dafion for Montana Soon.
c & N. w., c. B. 40 and c &
N alL Headed for this Terri
tory. Prepare for the Boom.

GENERAL BRIsBIN's VIEWS.
A Suggestion About Railroad from Miles
City to Buffalo. Worthy Of Attention.
Ed. YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL:
Fort Mckinney, Wyoming Ter,
Nov. 30th, 1887.
1 wrote yon last spring the railroads
from the south were fast heading to.
ward Montana. There are three Of
them, VIZ: the Burlington & Missouri,
the Chicago q Northwestern, aud the
Cheyenne q Northern. They will be
here next year and 10 Montana the
next. 1t has been . long walt. but
Montana and Wyoming are now
about to develop under railroad infiu.
ences as Kansas and Nebraska have
within the past few years. There
will soon be railroads everywhere
and perfect net work OF them cross.
ing and re-crossing your territory.
The Chicago & Northwestern will
go to the PARK and theme, to Bozeman
and Helena, side-linilg the Northern
Pacific from, Bozeman to Helena. The
Cheyenne Il Northern will 20 TO
Miles City, thence to Buford, side
lining the Northern Pacific from Miles
City to Glendive, only it will keep the
north side Of the river and not attempt
the foolish passage of the soap banks
above Glendive. From Buford the
road will go on north to the Canadian
Pacific. The Idea 10 to have Q cattle
road from the south to the north and
ii will extend almost due n.rth and
south from Texas to the Can adian Pa.
cif1c. The closing of the National cat
tie trail this year will soon make this
road an essential in handling beefand
replenishing our northern ranges.
1t will be both passenger and cattle
road, however, and by 1t one can 10
quickly to any state north or south.
All our roads now are built east and
west and / predict for the first north
and south road constructed q greater
success. 1t is now muchitoo far east
and west before one can turn north or
south when they desire TO travel Ia
thoee directions. Su ch q road is Ger
tsinly needed and 1t will pay as IL is
backed by other roads that now ex-
tend all the way from Cheyenne to
Galveston, Texas. 1t will only have
to build from Douglas, Wyo.. to the
British line to complete its transconti.
mental line north and south and will
mark new area In our railroading.
We have been so accustomed 10 east
and west that we have almost forgot.
ten we have Q north and . south, but
we have q new south and mighty en-
terprising one IL is too. The time has
come for connecting the country north
and south by rail as well as east and
west. 1t will be . glad day for this
nation when 1t is: done, for it will do
more than anything else to obliterste
the feelings engendered by war and
bind the country together In ono
homogeneous mass Of a common
brotherhood. A brotherhood OF inter.
est with trade and commence 10 back
II and free contact and commingling
of the sections with each other, will
soon lead. to better understanding and
appreciation Of each other, and con-
sequent brotherh ood Of hearts and
hands as well as inter ests. We know
too little of the south and they know
too little of us. These north and south
built lines will bring US together and
therefore they arevaluable to the nation
In more ways than mere consideration
of dollars and cents. Nobody knows
where the Burlington a Missouri is
going. II has surveyed and staked lie
line up to the court house down In
Buffalo, and there 1t stops. Some say
II will 90 to Custer and Billings and
thence TO Helena and Benton as Its In.
terests may be best subserved. II
comes here via Black Hills. Dead wood,
Belle Foucrhe, Sundsnce and Powder
river. 1t will be in Deadwood from
the south by December 3lst; and
then stop until next spring, when Il
will come here. II will cross Montana
sometime In the year 1889. II has
beer q long wait, but II 10 nearly over
for you Mont ma people and you may
get ready Tor genuine boom that will
stay with you when II comes. There
has been good deal Of quiet am use
ment over the lick In the Jaw the old
Northern Pssfic got the other day at
Helena from Jim Hill and his rode. II
seemed such n surprise TO the North
ern Pacific, a. II has had its own way